Lettering device.



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LETTERING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED 001'. 22, 1909 946,197. Patented Jan. 11,1910.

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UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIo WILLIAM 1V1. BLACK AND ANTHONY P. MORRIS, OFNEW YORK, N. Y.

LETTERING DEVICE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, IVILLIAM H. BLACK and ANTHONY P. MORRIS, citizensof the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New Yorkand State of New York, have invented or discovered certain new anduseful Improvements in Lettering Devices, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a lettering or printing device designed moreparticularly for the purpose of producing lettering or other charactersupon maps, charts, and drawings, but capable of use in other relationsas will be obvious to those skilled in the art from the followingdescription.

In many classes of work, particularly on maps, it is often desirable toproduce a word or words upon a line which is other than straight, inorder to follow approximately the configuration of other parts of thework, as, for example, in applying a name to a river.

One object therefore of the present invention is to produce a devicewhereby any clesired letters or characters may be easily, quickly, andaccurately printed in any pre determined position and following anydesired configuration.

Other objects of our invention, together with means whereby the same maybe carried into effect, will best be understood from the followingdescription of one form or embodiment thereof illustrated in theaccompanying drawings. It is to be under stood, however, that theconstruction shown and described has been chosen for illustrativepurposes merely, and that the invention may be embodied in many otherforms without departing from the spirit and scope thereof.

In said drawings :--Figure 1 is a side and Fig. 2 an end elevation ofthe stamping device as a whole, when assembled for hand work forseparate words or phrases. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of theadjustable type pallet. For use in a printing chase for press work aform of pallet without outside projections is provided. Fig. 4 is a planview of the position finder. Fig. 5 is a diagrammatic view illustratingone of the classes of work which the invention is designed to perform,and showing in dotted lines the relative positions of the stampingdevice and position finder when in use.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 22, 1909.

Patented J an. 11, 1910.

Serial No. 524,091.

In the construction shown, the type pallet comprises a suitable frame 12within which is located a flexible type holder preferably consisting ofa pair of parallel strips 13 of resilient sheet material, such as springsteel, and having on their opposite inner faces a suitable frictionmaterial 14, such as rubber, for engaging and holding the type. The typeholder may be bent to any desired configuration in or with respect to asurface parallel to or coincident with the surface to be printed or toreceive the impression, and for the purpose of so adjusting thepallet,..and for holding the same in adjusted position, and also forforcing the strips 13 toward one another to engage and hold the type,adjusting means are provided and are herein shown as a plurality ofscrews 15 engaging in suitable threaded openings 21 in the walls of theframe 12 and engaging at their inner ends on the strips 13.

The walls of the frame 12 will preferably be provided with a relativelylarge number of openings 21 for the screws 15, whereby the strips 13 maybe made to assume straight lines or substantially any other desiredconfiguration in accordance with the requirements of the work. It willalso be seen that the strips 13 may be separated by a greater or lessdistance to accommodate type of varying sizes.

For supporting, guiding and operating the type pallet any suitabledevices may be employed. As shown mechanism is provided as follows.Mounted for vertical movements in a suitable frame 26, and preferablyguided therein by lugs 17 entering slots 18 in feet 22 provided by saidframe. is a pallet holder or carrier 19 to which the type pallet issecured, preferably in a removable and adjustable manner by the dovetailconnection 20. For operating the pallet holder 19 and its attachedpallet there is provided an actuator or plunger 16 Secured to saidpallet holder 19 as by screws 24 pass ing through said slots 18. Theframe 26 and plunger 16 are preferably normally separated by a spring 25contained within a tubular extension 23 of said frime and a suitablerecess in the handle 27 of said plunger. A number of type pallets ofvarious sizes, and all adapted to be received by the pallet holder 19,may if desired be provided in order to adapt the device to differentrequirements of work.

For use in a printing chase for press work,

the pallet is modified so as to have no pro- 1 jections outside of thesides and is without a top.

It is desirable that, after having set up the desired lettering in thetype pallet and adjusted the type holder 13, to its desiredconfiguration, means be provided for properly locating the position inwhich this lettering will be stamped. To this end we have provided aposition finder, the preferred construction of which is shown in Fig. t.This finder comprises a suitable number of relatively adjustable partsadapted respectively to engage a fixed portion of the stamp and anadjustable portion of the type holder. As shown the finder comprises asubstantially U shaped frame having parallel arms 35, terminating inoutwardly turned feet 28. Movably mounted on the arms 35, as by thesleeves 29, is a slide 30, a suitable set screw 81 being provided whennecessary for securing said slide in adjusted position. Movably mountedon slide 30, as by sleeve controlled by a set screw 33, is a pointer34;.

The position finder is used substantially as follows: The word or wordshaving been set up in proper form in the pallet, the stamp is invertedand the feet -28 of the finder placed against the feet 22 of the stamp.The slide 30 and pointer 34. are then moved until the end of the pointeris placed against the bottom of any desired letter, when the set screws31 and 33 are tightened. The finder is then laid upon the map or otherwork with the end of the pointer 3% at the point where this designatedletter is to fall on the work, and with the line joining the feet 28 ofthe finder parallel to the position of the line which would join thebottoms of the extreme letters of the word. The stamp is then placedupright with its feet 22 against the feet of the finder. The finder isthen removed and the imprint made.

Having thus described our invention we claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent:

1. In a device of the character described, a flexible type holderadapted to assume different configurations or forms in a surfaceparallel to the surface to be printed, and means for retaining said typeholder in any predetermined form.

2. In a device of the character described, the combination with a typeholder, of means for adjusting the configuration or form of said typeholder in a surface parallel to the surface to be printed.

3. In a device of the character described, in combination, a type holdercomprising a pair of parallel strips of resilient material provided ontheir opposite, type-engaging faces with frictional material, and meansfor adjusting the configuration of said strips.

a. In a device of the character described, a type pallet comprising aframe, a type holder of adjustable configuration within said frame andconsisting of a plurality of strips of flexible material, and means forvarying the curvature of said strips.

In a device of the character described, a type pallet comprising a pairof substantially parallel strips adapted to receive type between themand means for forcing said strips toward one another and for adjustingthe configuration or form of said strips.

(3. In a device of the character described, a type pallet comprising aframe, a type holder of adjustable curvature within said frame, and aplurality of adjusting devices mounted in said frame and engaging saidtype holder.

7. In a device of the character described, a type pallet comprising aframe, type holder of adjustable configuration within said frame, andconsisting of a plurality of strips of flexible material, and aplurality of adjusting devices mounted in said frame and engaging saidtype holder for varying the curvature of said strips.

8. In a device of the character described, the combination with a typepallet including a type-holder adapted to assume differentconfigurations or forms in a. surface pa *allel to the surface to beprinted, of a movable carrier for said pallet, and means for guiding themovements of said carrier. 7

9. In a device of the charact described, the combination with a typeholder of adjustable configuration and supporting and operating meansfor said holder, of a position finder for said device comprisingrelatively adjustable parts adapted to engage said type holder and saidsupporting and operating means, respectively.

10. The combination with a type stamp having a type holder of adjustableconfiguration, of a position finder comprising relatively adjustableparts adapted respectively to engage relatively fixed and adjustableportions of said stamp.

11. The combination with a type stamp having a type-holder of adjustableconfiguration, of a position finder comprising a pair of connectedparallel arms adapted to engage said stamp, a slide movably mounted onsaid arms. and a pointer movably mounted on said slide and adapted toengage said adjustable type holder.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures, in presence of twowitnesses.

IVILLIAM M. BLACK. ANTHONY I. MORRIS. itnesses ED. II. Jonas, JACOBBECK.

